Arsenal V Mou's Hoes, 26 April KO 1600

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Originally Posted by Letters

Bus. Parked.

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Me :bow:

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Originally Posted by adzzzbatch

"can't fail to be impressed by chelski"

alan smith is a cunt.

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Been making excuses for him for years.

Regrettably, it turns out that he is indeed a cunt.

We have to accept that the bar has been raised in the 11 years that the Russian has been at Chelsea and especially under Mourinho.

We have to defend better as a team and get as many players behind the ball that Chelsea had.

We need 4 very good new signings in the summer, Thierry Henry is absolutely right.

I know everybody hates him but we would love to have a player like John Terry at the back and as captain.

I don't think we can win the league with Wenger although we can get very close.

Wenger set us up to play through the centre against the best defence in the league. The chavs will lap that up all day long, and they did. We have pace, the one thing that could have unlocked them was pace. Even when he brought Welbeck on he took Bif off. Maureen commented on this in his usual goading fashion, almost like he was gently giving Wenger a few clues. Wenger won't hear though.

In many ways he was just as negative as Maureen yesterday. We set up to not lose in a game we had to win. Henry's comments before the game were spot on, it was vital for us to win not because we stand a chance of beating the chavs to the title but for the message it would have sent for next season and for the confidence of the players and the fans. As it is, here we are again, without a win after 14 attempts. Wenger will never beat Maureen, we have players that could manufacture a win through individual endeavour and talent but that wouldn't be down to Wenger and his tactics or ambition.

We had the players to win that match, but not the manager. We "lacked a little bit in final third" because he set us up to require ridiculously intricate passing through determined and massed defensive ranks. We were penned-in on the flanks when we did go there because the tempo was low and the passing was short and into traffic. We should have been playing longer and in behind their fullbacks and using pace. We should have been attacking on both flanks simultaneously to pull the defenders across the pitch and open up space. That tippy-tappy shit to feet was a gift for the chavs, Maureen was probably laughing his arse off as usual.

For those who say it's not so easy to find the space, look at what Fabregas was doing. Simple lob behind the backline with a runner chasing it. Oscar FFS! He's not even a striker but it didn't matter given the simplicity. We have Santi, Ozil, Alexis, to do the same but they were too busy playing triangles in front of Terry and co.

So what if we had played ambitiously and got hit with a sucker punch? One point, zero points, what's the difference when only three points will do?

It's embarrassing how easily our manager can be outwitted by a decent tactician. The chavs decided before kick-off what they wanted and they simply came and took it. We could still be playing now and we wouldn't have scored yet.

Hazard wasn't needed yesterday. That's how poorly we did in reality. I can handle losing but I can't stand it when we don't give it 100%

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Wenger set us up to play through the centre against the best defence in the league. The chavs will lap that up all day long, and they did. We have pace, the one thing that could have unlocked them was pace. Even when he brought Welbeck on he took Bif off. Maureen commented on this in his usual goading fashion, almost like he was gently giving Wenger a few clues. Wenger won't hear though.

In many ways he was just as negative as Maureen yesterday. We set up to not lose in a game we had to win. Henry's comments before the game were spot on, it was vital for us to win not because we stand a chance of beating the chavs to the title but for the message it would have sent for next season and for the confidence of the players and the fans. As it is, here we are again, without a win after 14 attempts. Wenger will never beat Maureen, we have players that could manufacture a win through individual endeavour and talent but that wouldn't be down to Wenger and his tactics or ambition.

We had the players to win that match, but not the manager. We "lacked a little bit in final third" because he set us up to require ridiculously intricate passing through determined and massed defensive ranks. We were penned-in on the flanks when we did go there because the tempo was low and the passing was short and into traffic. We should have been playing longer and in behind their fullbacks and using pace. We should have been attacking on both flanks simultaneously to pull the defenders across the pitch and open up space. That tippy-tappy shit to feet was a gift for the chavs, Maureen was probably laughing his arse off as usual.

For those who say it's not so easy to find the space, look at what Fabregas was doing. Simple lob behind the backline with a runner chasing it. Oscar FFS! He's not even a striker but it didn't matter given the simplicity. We have Santi, Ozil, Alexis, to do the same but they were too busy playing triangles in front of Terry and co.

So what if we had played ambitiously and got hit with a sucker punch? One point, zero points, what's the difference when only three points will do?

It's embarrassing how easily our manager can be outwitted by a decent tactician. The chavs decided before kick-off what they wanted and they simply came and took it. We could still be playing now and we wouldn't have scored yet.

Hazard wasn't needed yesterday. That's how poorly we did in reality. I can handle losing but I can't stand it when we don't give it 100%

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Spot on as usual.

Whenever i've watched Chelsea, the opposition have caused them problems and scored against them (esp in the last 15 games where they have won the majority of their games 2-1 and 3-2) through pace or and crosses. Hull, QPR, Spuds, Burnley, Leicester, Newcastle etc have all either beaten Chelsea or scored and caused them problems. We always struggle against Mourinho, whether we are top (like last season at home) or 3rd/4th (6-0) and that is simply down to the manager's reluctance to adapt his team to the oppo and his lack of tactical nous. We have pace, we have runners, we have goal scorers and creative players but we need to combine all of these qualities and really go for it. Yesterday, Chelsea were so comfortable and we never stretched them at all, always playing in front of them. The couple of times we had half chances, was through balls in behind (Bellerin and Montral).